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lagerstätte, n.
Brit. |ˈlɑːgəʃtɛtə|, U.S. |ˈlɑgərˌʃtɛdə|, |ˈlɑgərˌʃteɪdə|
Also with capital initial.[Plural] lagerstätten Brit. |ˈlɑːgəʃtɛtən|, U.S. |ˈlɑgərˌʃtɛd(ə)n|, |ˈlɑgərˌʃteɪd(ə)n|
[‹ German Lagerstätte mineral deposit (1961 or earlier in this sense) > n.) + Stätte place, site (see stead n.).]
A fossil deposit of exceptional richness or interest. Also more fully fossil-lagerstatte. Usu. in pl.
1972Science 22 Sept. 1069/1 Our knowledge of the history of life would be very different were it not for the occasional instances of spectacular preservation of large assemblages (Lagerstätten). 1988Trends Ecol. & Evol. 3 275/1 The Solnhofen limestone is famous in geological circles as a lagerstätte, a deposit which has yielded a large amount of information about the organisms which lived at a certain point in geological time. 1989S. J. Gould Wonderful Life (1991) 63 We pass through the Permo-Triassic extinction and come to the most famous of all Lagerstätten—the Jurassic Solnhofen limestone of Germany. 2001Nature 22 Nov. 419 A suite of fossils, representing at least four taxa, from the Chengjiang fossil-Lagerstätte (south China). |